Schoolies report card

The official report of last year's Schoolies event in Byron Bay will be presented to the Byron Shire Council today (Thursday 18/04/2013).

Organisers are looking at how the 2012 response went and are busy preparing for this year.

Schoolies coordinator Nicqui Yazdi said the 'Hub' at Byron Bay's Main Beach was kept extremely busy and overall it was generally a successful event.

According to Ms Yazdi, difficult situations were handled well, in particular a sexual assault on a young woman which she said was dealt with sensitively by volunteers.

But Ms Yazdi said the incident also highlighted the need for more female volunteers.

There's also a call for the local health district to become more involved as volunteers said they bore the brunt of schoolies' health needs.

The holiday hub administered first aid 24 hours a day, but at the same time admission figures to the local hospital were down.

Schoolies coordinator Nicqui Yard said there needs to be a co-ordinated approach to the health needs of young people because the schoolies hub was inundated with first aid requests.

"We will be asking the hospital to become part of the working group so that we can get better access to things like the statistics of what happens at the hospital during schoolies, certainly bringing together all of those agencies will make our job a lot easier to know what it is that we're facing each year," Ms Yard said.

There is also a call for more police on the beat on weeknights during this year's event.

"It goes well on a weekend when we've got high numbers of the extra police in town but certainly we did get a lot of feedback from our volunteers this year just about the fact that the ratio on weekends in comparison to what was happening during the week was quite different so we do need a bit more support mid week," Ms Yard said.